Meet the Team

Myles Arnott ACMA

Head of Spreadsheet Consultancy and Training

Myles has extensive experience in best practice use of Excel in business. Prior to setting up Clarity, Myles worked in Financial Analyst roles providing key business information and developing Management Information Systems across a variety of industry sectors.

At Clarity Myles focuses on delivering bespoke Excel training, developing Excel based models and implementing Management Information Systems.

“Microsoft Excel is one of the most used pieces of business software, but is rarely used effectively. I am motivated by helping individuals and businesses to get the most out of Excel."

Chris Emery ACA

Head of Finance Transformation

Chris is a Chartered Accountant who in recent years has worked on delivering various finance projects, building on experience gained in audit and analyst roles. These projects have enabled businesses to meet regulatory changes, cut costs, and provide a single format and version of information from diverse sources.

At Clarity Chris focuses on management reporting and process design and re-engineering. He is a qualified 6 sigma practitioner.

Giles Male ACMA

Head of Financial Modelling & Spreadsheet Review

Giles has spent more than ten years building a wide range of spreadsheet models across the defence, telecoms and leisure industries.

He developed and managed the financial models supporting Arqiva’s successful bid to become the Communications Service Provider for the smart metering network in the northern region of the UK, and went on to play an important role in the transition phase following on from the subsequent bid win.

At Clarity Giles heads up our Financial Modelling, FAST Level 1 training and Spreadsheet Review services.

In his spare time Giles enjoys a challenge. He recently completed the Marathon Des Sables.

Areeba Ajanee CFA

Consultant

Areeba Ajanee Areeba is a Chartered Financial Analyst with a passion for financial modelling. She has over ten years of experience spanning investment banking, real estate finance, equity research and project finance. She spent the earlier part of her career in London’s West End, working in a commercial real estate services company’s Occupier Strategy/ Real Estate Finance division. There she was involved with portfolio analysis of complex financial transactions such as sale and leasebacks for the firm’s EMEA based clients.

In recent years, she has led the financial modelling efforts for various investment projects and clients, helping to deliver models which are flexible and user friendly.

Areeba also holds an MSc in International Accounting and Finance from Cass Business School. London.

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What our clients say

"The work recently done by Clarity Consultancy Services to upgrade the management accounting, budgeting and monthly payroll processing at Bristol Old Vic has made a significant difference to the efficiency of the finance team, meeting expectations across the board and in places exceeding it.

Significant step change improvements in the use of office technology have been achieved at reasonable cost and on budget."

N Gardner, FD, Bristol Old Vic

"Clarity have created a bespoke Excel spreadsheet for my Company that allows me to produce integrated Sales Forecast, P&L, Balance Sheet and Cashflow Forecasts over a 3 year period. I can quickly produce a set of reports for the bank and for internal forecasting purposes.

As a Chartered Accountant and business owner of 27 years, it is one of the most useful financial tools I have available to me.

I can highly recommend Clarity’s unique blend of IT skill and detailed accountancy knowledge. They are effective and very easy to do business with."

Tim Hughes, Managing Director CHH Conex Limited

"We have spent a long time looking for the right training company to deliver our excel training.

In Clarity we found just what we were looking for - tailor made excel training for each and every one of our employees. Not only did we get excellent excel training at all levels, but they also understood how we were using excel in our work, making the sessions much more relevant.

We would highly recommend Clarity and will certainly continue using them in the future."

Bettina McLean, Senior Associate, Hamilton Hotel Partners Ltd

"We were looking for a reliable, scalable way to analyse business performance, integrating our various data sources into one place. Previous attempts had been unreliable/inaccurate, unmanageable and not scalable.

We now have reliable data and a reporting platform which is transformational to us as a business and enables us to understand in a much clearer way what is going on.

I would absolutely recommend Clarity Consultancy Services. The main reason is the level of organisation in the delivery of the project, as well as the fact that we felt empowered/able to easily own the project when it was delivered."

Tom Stapleton, Managing Director, Travellocal

"As a unique and global-leading energy research consultancy, our analysts are a community of highly skilled and talented individuals. As our market continues to move at rapid pace with more and more data being sourced, our analysts have had to enhance their skillset with a highly advanced new set of Excel skills.

We have partnered with Clarity Consultancy Services for a number of years. They have delivered a blend of modular training to groups of analysts mixed with powerful and collaborative 1:1 sessions – unlocking not just individual ability but transforming the way we handle incredible amounts of data. This has resulted in us absorbing greater amounts of data and translating that in to cutting-edge research.

I would recommend Clarity Consultancy Services without hesitation. Myles is one of the family at Energy Aspects, building strong relationships across the business. He provides regular support to our teams, and our analysts enjoy challenging, and being challenged by, Myles!"

Dan Denningberg, Global Head of People, Energy Aspects

"Great to meet you today and thanks for the course. We all really valued it and are looking forward to being more efficient with excel!

I'm sure we will be seeing more of you and your team in the future."

David Marcussen. Owner, Marcussen Consulting

"Myles and I have worked together on a couple of data driven market analysis projects.

He has acted like a partner to the team. His excel expertise and data analysis rationale have been invaluable to the success of the projects. He is a real pleasure to work with; always professional, calm under pressure and a real expert in his field. I wouldn’t hesitate to recommend him."

Helen Benton, Strategy Director

"We found Clarity when we were looking for support on a project developing a core reporting platform for the Group Finance team of a leading pharmaceutical client.

Clarity provided resource in four areas: Project management, business analysis, testing and Excel spreadsheet expertise. The Clarity team were a key conduit between the business SME and my development team and contributed significantly to the project being delivered on time and to the agreed budget.

I regularly recommend Clarity to my clients and look forward to working with the team again."

James Percy, Owner of Verasseti

"I can clearly see how well my business is performing. I can finally sleep at night."

P. O'Toole, MD Retail Merchandising Services Ltd

"Thank you so much for the bespoke Intermediate / Advanced Excel course that you carried out on-site at Zuken.

The training was for myself and one other person and was delivered friendly and efficiently. It was well organised and our trainer was really great at adapting it to each of our individual needs. He assisted us in applying the new techniques to some of our existing reports and this has really helped reduce time in our day to day reporting.

I would certainly recommend Clarity to anyone wanting Microsoft Excel training and will not hesitate to use you again."

Katerina Banwell, UK Accountant, Zuken UK Ltd

“We are implementing a global ERP, and the excel model we were using to capture and forecast costs had become inefficient due to our changing needs to analyse spend in different ways. We discussed our problems with Clarity and after a face-to-face meeting we followed up with some telephone conversations.

We now have a financial model which accurately collects and presents the cost data of our project. More importantly, the agility and intelligence of the model means we can provide on-the-spot updates to the project’s whole life cost expectations during meetings and presentations.

Giles listened very carefully to our requirements, he took time to ensure he understood every part of our model’s needs and he delivered something which aligns precisely with what we requested. I would certainly use Clarity Consultancy Services again.”

Martin Eves, Director of financial operations, Glory Global Solutions